Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Haifang Fu

Jie Zhang

Zhihong Qiu

Hongbo Jin

Wangbin Zhu

The present invention relates to communication technologies, and discloses a device capability invocation method, a widget device, and a server. The device capability invocation method includes: receiving a device capability invocation request sent by a widget, where the device capability invocation request carries conditions of a device capability that needs to be invoked; search a device capability database for the device capability compliant with the conditions; invoking the found device capability; receiving an invocation result that is returned after the found device capability is invoked; and sending the invocation result to the widget. The technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present invention enables a widget device to invoke device capabilities of all devices in the system.

Device capability invocation method, widget device, server

A method for an agent service applied to a Widget is provided, where the method includes: receiving a service request for the Widget using an Application Programming Interface (API) initiated by a user terminal; forwarding the service request to an API service provider, and forwarding a response for the service request from the API service provider to the user terminal; collecting charging information generated by the Widget using an API service, and recording the collected charging information, where the charging information, together with a charging policy registered by the Widget, is used to perform uniform charging for the API service used by the Widget. An embodiment of the present invention further provides a server, which may reduce complicated user operation and bringing better user experience.

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